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The Art of Illustration
About this book
An influential teacher whose pen-and-ink drawings helped define the style of the early twentieth century, Edmund J. Sullivan sought to define the principles behind good illustration. His treatise ― richly illustrated with black-and-white engravings by Holbein, Dürer, Rubens, Blake, and many others ― also offers suggestions on materials and methods.
Sullivan, who came of age during the heyday of graphic design and book illustration, was a firm believer in free but faithful artistic interpretations. In The Art of Illustration, he conducts a fascinating journey through art history that ranges back and forth in time from his contemporaries — including Beardsley, Doré, and Whistler — to Botticelli and other old masters. Sullivan's knowledgeable and informative discourse covers symbolism, cartoons, the use of models, the illustration of poetry and plays, children's books, and a host of other topics of enduring interest to artists and art lovers.
Sullivan, who came of age during the heyday of graphic design and book illustration, was a firm believer in free but faithful artistic interpretations. In The Art of Illustration, he conducts a fascinating journey through art history that ranges back and forth in time from his contemporaries — including Beardsley, Doré, and Whistler — to Botticelli and other old masters. Sullivan's knowledgeable and informative discourse covers symbolism, cartoons, the use of models, the illustration of poetry and plays, children's books, and a host of other topics of enduring interest to artists and art lovers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Introduction
- Note and Acknowledgments
- Contents
- I The Art of Illustration
- II Whistler on the Content of Art
- III Purely Pictorial Art
- IV Thought Forms and Colours
- V Automatic Drawing and the Power of Suggestion
- VI Object and Subject
- VII Vivid Vision of Facts
- VIII Form and Line
- IX Symbolism
- X Cartoons
- XI Study of Style
- XII Consistency with Original Impulse Essential in Art
- XIII Flexibility of the Pen Line
- XIV Composition and the Principle of Groups
- XV On the Use of Models
- XVI Phil May and Beardsley
- XVII Botticelli and Progressive Interest
- XVIII Sandys and Boyd Houghton
- XIX Blake
- XX Millais and the Illustration of Verse
- XXI Doré and Scale
- XXII Reduction of Drawings by Process
- XXIII Some Limitations and Possibilities in Black and White Convention
- XXIV Suggestions to be found in Copperplate Engraving for Pen Drawing
- XXV “Line” and Lines
- XXVI Methods of Tone Drawing
- XXVII Coloured Illustration and “Make-up”
- XXVIII Authors and Illustrations
- XXIX Transitional Times and Opinions
- XXX Truth to Life
- XXXI Blake on Imagination
- XXXII Emotional Quality of Vision
- XXXIII Great Literature not necessarily more inspiring than poor
- XXXIV Necessity for Accuracy of Reference to Text
- XXXV Illustration of Modern Plays
- XXXVI Children’s Books
- XXXVII The Print Room
- Index